Another raspberry pi question

[stefan-west1]

Hi all.

I've looked and seen people have said that these raspberry pis can't really be used as an everyday computer, but would it work to just run excel or equivalent just to write up a few invoices. The work PC is broke but that's all it's used for so was hoping to save a bit of cash and spend about £30 on one of these. Also it takes up no space. So any ideas?

 

[BK_123]

Depending on the specs, I think they can only run Linux OS's but I think most of them come with Libre Office or Open Office so yes it should be fine for general word processing but I wouldn't consider it as a replacement for your work PC, You'd be able to get a decent refurbished system for a bit more that would be more than capable of running what you want to do.

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[strollin]

The Raspberry Pi was designed to be an inexpensive learning computer for school kids. You could use it with Libre or Open Office suites (the Pi runs Linux so no MS Office) to create/edit Excel compatible spreadsheets but I think you would be disappointed in the performance since it has a very underpowered cpu and limited memory.

Once you buy the Pi you still need to provide a 5V power supply, SD card, mouse, keyboard and monitor. Although not totally necessary, you would probably also want a case for it. The OS doesn't come with the Pi, you'll need to download the OS and install it on your SD card. Depending on what else you need it to do, you may need a USB hub since the Pi has only 2 USB ports. My point is that unless you have all the stuff you need laying around, it will cost more than £30 to put a Pi in place.

 

[ssc456]

Yeah although you probably could do it with a Pi you are going to be miles better off getting something like this: Cheap and Reliable wireless DELL OPTIPLEX WINDOWS XP COMPUTER DESKTOP | eBay

or this: Acer Aspire Desktop Pc Tower Windows 7 - 1GB Ram - 160GB HDD - Working | eBay

or this: Intel Pentium 2.52Ghz Dual-Core New-Build PC With XP Pro | eBay

 

[BK_123]

I could go with the 2nd one that Ssc suggested..